Mr. Blackshaw’s compositions have come along way since his bare and finger-picked guitar stylings on albums of yore. The new arrangements are fully fleshed out with a variety of instrumentation, and All Is Falling marks the first Blackshaw album featuring electric guitar. Say what?! Crazy, I know. The electric revolution can be bought on vinyl [...]

The cult of Mikael grows ever stronger, with new devotional materials being presented in the form of an epic boxset from the mighty Opeth. For approximately $125 you get an analog transcription of Opeth’s most recent double-set stint at the Royal Albert Hall, in which they played the entirety of Blackwater Park followed by a [...]

Does what it says on the tin. Insound has tons of records, you have lots of empty shelf space. If you don’t, then you need to buy some new shelves and place an order at Insound where the entire store is 15% off for an entire week using coupon code “swjune15″ – insound.com.

A new vinyl pressing from the extremely talented Aaron Martin, presented in full-detail, analog glory by the well-bred folk at Experimedia. This is really excellent drone-leaning material wrought via an array of acoustic, stringed instruments and an expert touch of electronic processing and post-editing. Pick up a pre-order and support this fantastic, well curated label [...]

The fourth studio album and Peaceville debut from Opeth, finally reissued on vinyl. Americans might have a hard time schilling out the dough for this one, but who knows if it will ever show up stateside, don’t count on it. Limited to 2000 hand-numbered copies – that may seem like a lot, unless you have [...]

Sunnyside psychedelia from the Type imprint, just in time for the summer heat and iced coffees. The Alps play a particularly endearing brand of pastoral music, sparsely injected with weird bits of experimental sound but for the most part radiating warm and cozy vibes. Currently available for purchase from boomkat.com. Now being distributed by forcedexposure.com, [...]

Break out your rawhide blouses and battle maces, gentlemen. This epic 7xLP tome has been ensconced in a wooden box, hewn from the plank of a tree failed by a lumberjack wearing panda makeup and spiked amulets. In all seriousness though, these 3 albums from occult-folksters Agalloch have been out-of-print and fetching large sums on [...]

It’s a tough call at this point to say whether or not I prefer Rafael Anton Irisarri performing under the name on his birth certificate or as The Sight Below. I suppose as long as he is making music under one guise or another, it’s kind of moot point. Blissed-out techno as The Sight Below [...]

There’s minimal, then there’s Minimal. The former is a toss-off term bandied about by so-called “writers” who took a few years of art school (that would be me), and the latter is a regimented style of musical craft mastered by a man named Sylvain Chauveau and applied to the modern classical formula here on his [...]

The debut solo album by the much beloved frontman of Sigur Rós, Jónsi Birgisson. If you like Sigur Rós then you’ll probably like this, that goes without saying. There is currently a pre-order for the vinyl edition on XL posted at amazon.com but rumor is there will be news shortly forthcoming about a deluxe and/or [...]

I hate remix albums just as much as any other post-rave, acid-casualty burnout, but this album is infinitely more sublime than your average trance-rock refix. Dakota Suite offers up his compositions for dissection from several of the finest artists operating in the experimental music nexus, and the results are sounding pretty fantastic. Then again, it’s [...]

Two new(ish) 10-inch pieces of vinyl from Ólafur Arnalds, who is from Iceland. Like many musicians from Iceland, he makes very pleasant and achingly beautiful music. Like many musicians from Iceland who make this kind of music, he has done a stint opening for Icelanders extraordinaire, Sigur Rós. Found Songs is a collection of songs [...]

Speaking of labels having an amazing year, how about this Type label, you guys? John Twell’s impressive and influential imprint just continues to drop album after album of stunning ambient and left-of-center underground music. If you picked up his vinyl release on Touch earlier this year, then you know not to miss out on Johann [...]

Boomkat was just raving about this album, so you know we had to check it out. Turns out (as always) that the esteemed staff at Boomkat know exactly what they are talking about. Insónia is an album driven mostly by piano arrangements, accented quite tastefully with drums, guitars, clarinets and all manner of other instruments. [...]

Hey late night Friday readers. Figured I better get this one in before the weekend, because these Eleh LPs might not make it until Monday. The mysterious purveyor of Pure Analogue Drone is back with two vinyl albums on Important Records. The two-fer special edition (with bonus photograph pouch) is already sold out, but you [...]